LA River Mullet

[DockRat]

Secret Spot Exposed



I was wondering if anyone target's them.
Seen some tattooed shirtless longhair tweeker type dude a couple times fishing for them in the LA River at Anahiem St.

If you turn at West Coast Choppers and park by the river there is a cement burm that is exposed at low tide and usually a bunch of gulls and pelicans there.

Keep in mind that the river tends to run backwards as the tide comes back in creating a mixture fresh/salt/toxic polluted mixture Nice.

VEGANS ??? Never fished for them but heard they are vegetarians.
Bait ??? Peas, Moss ??? I Dunno ???

I have checked this spot several times and you can see them school at times.



DANGER !!! WARNING !!!

DANGERS REGAURDING THIS SPOT READ BELOW !!!

1st THESE FISH ARE CONTAMINATED !!!

LA RIVER IS NASTY WITH TONS OF STREET POLLUTION FROM LOS ANGELES.

I WOULD NOT EAT THEM SINCE THEY LIVE IN THIS NASTY CESSPOOL !!!

2nd THIS AREA HAS MANY HOMELESS PEOPLE LIVING BY THE RIVER

( WATCH YOUR BACK )

3rd YOUR CAR MAY GET BROKEN INTO SINCE YOU CAN'T SEE IT WHEN DOWN BY THE RIVER


Good Luck


DR

[smokehound]

lol saying they arent contaminated wont stop people from eating them.


I see people keeping the croakers from the lower part of the san gabriel river. If only they would travel up about 5 miles and see whats flowing into there. YUCK.


Mullet are hard to catch, but ive caught a few off the newport pier using tiny tiny sandcrabs on a tiny tiny treble hook.

[Danny300]

boarder brothers snag those out at the jetty near seal beach when the schools go past. I've never seen them caught with bait, but if you could get them to bite. they are a hell of a fight

[Bradakas]

there is also tilapia in various areas too.

[tpfishnfool]

Dude , mullets are bitchin man !!

[DockRat]

Anahiem St is about 3/4 mile up river from the launch ramp by the Queen Mary. I had seen a snagger once on the burm there at low tide.
Some homeless are camping out off Anaheim on the N side of the river.
Gonna be nasty as the S Central flush comes with the rain.

Dude , mullets are bitchin man !!

DR

[fishmounter]

Mullets are an awesome fish on light tackle! They are so strong and fast. Hard to get them to take a bait though.

[samgann93]

if you want to try and catch them whats your best bet? besides snagging

[DockRat]

if you want to try and catch them whats your best bet? besides snagging

Those Vegan Mullets will go for Peas or Moss wrapped on a hook.

Some guys use 'Moss Flies'
Here is a bad pic.



At Anahiem St on the LA River at low tide you can see them school.



Mullet Article;

This sums up the Nasty LA River

The very best spots for mullet fishing are where sewer pipes and discharge pipes enter directly in to the sea. Mullet are foragers and will capitalise on any food source that is constant. Such pipes bring food directly to the mullet and they will often swim up inside the pipes a little way to feed. You'll often see the mullet feeding with their tails poking above the surface slick where pipe discharge directly falls in to the sea.

BAITS
Top baits for mullet are bread flake both sub surface and fished floating on the surface, small bits of ragworm, mackerel flesh with the skin removed, cheese paste especially Dairy Lea, plus they can be weaned on to pasta, cat food, sausage meat, and pretty much any other food stuff for human consumption.

They also occasionally take whole small ragworm and tiny bits of lugworm, plus will take maggots and are especially vulnerable during the July to September period when the weed on the shoreline has the blow fly maggots in it that wash in to the sea as a natural groundbait and lure the mullet in.

PREBAITING
The discharge pipes and the wash off from boat decks does some of the pre baiting for you and concentrates the mullet. Even so, it still pays to put ground bait in the water.

The best way when fishing harbours and marinas is to use the small mesh bags that washing powder tablets go in and fill these with a mix of fish type cat food, bran and pilchard oil, or plain white bread. These can be lowered in to the swim and tied off to keep a constant trickle of food going in to the water to get the mullet feeding.

The small bags can also be replaced easily, use minimal groundbait but are fully effective, plus are easily repositioned if need be. Have the bag just touching the surface water to slowly leech the food out.�

You can use the same tactic from piers and breakwaters.

In estuary creeks look for rocks that jut out in to the creek. Try filling the cracks in the rock with bread and groundbait at different levels. As the tide floods, the bread and groundbait leaks out at a constant rate and will hold the fish in the swim.

Anglers from the Channel Islands also use Chervy, a mix of minced meat, sweet corn, sometimes bread and mackerel. This is made in to a thick soup like consistency and is added by hand intermittently with a large spoon or ladle. Again it is very effective wherever you use it.

http://www.worldseafishing.com/shore/shore_mullet.html


DR

[old pudd fisher]

Wow! Pretty nasty creatures they must be.